Windmills

Windmills is a short CGI animation created by The Windmill Team (a team of graduates of Georges Méliès School). I found this animation on YouTube whilst trying to found short animations based on the elements and I thought that the style of this animation was quite beautiful, in particular I really love the environmental aesthetics of the animation (not saying I don't like the story line of the animation because I do, I think it's great).

This has influenced me to look at experimenting texture in my environmental work for my animation. It has also made me think about colour pallets and the kind of textures I want within my animation. This animation has very rich, detailed environments, which I feel only helps to tell the story better. This is something I want to explore within my work and I should definitely figured out whether detailed, busy backgrounds will work for me or whether I should create very detailed characters instead. 

Another small detail of this animation I like is the colours used for the water, especially the bubbles. Again this has influenced me to experiment with different colour pallets for my own water within my animation. 

Overall. this animation has made me realise that I don't have to forfeit texture and detail just because I'm working digitally and I will explore and experiment with many different techniques throughout my work.